We had an amazing second Halloween!  It was also mommy’s birthday, and we all had an extra special day.

What did mommy ask for?  Well, first of all, you should know that we adore Finding Nemo.  We watch it every day.  Secondly, we love to climb on things, and the only thing we really love to do more than that is to push the buttons on the dvd player.  We make the movie stop, and then say “uh-oh” relentlessly until mommy finally comes over and makes it work again… just in time for us to push more buttons!  We think this is pretty funny, but mommy feels differently.  Also, mommy is afraid that we will climb on this entertainment center and hurt ourselves.

This is the look Avery gives mommy after she says “don’t touch” for the thousandth time…

So to fix this problem, mommy asked for a big TV that we can put on the wall.  That way we can see the TV better, and we won’t have those pesky buttons to touch…and we won’t kill ourselves trying to climb up the TV stand!  Everybody wins!  Daddy is THE BEST.

After opening the present, we tried to take some pictures in our Stitch outfits.  Aurelia decided to have a momentary tantrum.  During many, many moments of the day, this is exactly what life looks like with two 16-month olds.

We only liked wearing our hat when we could look at ourselves in the mirror.

Then we went on a hike at our favorite spot on Spruce Mountain.  We drove down Mt. Vernon first and saw all the houses decorated for Halloween.

We came home and opened the door to hand out candy to trick-or-treaters (closing and opening the door is another one of our favorite activities now, so it was especially entertaining for us). We also got a special visit from cousin Morgan (aka Mary Poppins)!  She brought mommy macaroons from the Wild Iris!

We love her!

Avery somehow knew that those little purple foils held something that would be amazingly delicious to eat.  He kept trying to put the entire thing (wrapper and all) in his mouth, so mommy decided to let him have some chocolate (it is Halloween after all!)

Gooey fingers!

So. Good.

Straight into the bath after that!  You know it’s been a long, good day when we forget to take our socks off before we get in the bath

We had the PERFECT day!  Our family is the best!